Ya Bezzer!

I would like to see an outline of income and expenses to see exactly why these losses are occurring, rather than just general figures.

Strong possibility. I'd be surprised if McCall ditched a guy that started and finished the season as no.1 but it's a bit of a risk as Nielsen could just do a Bobo and sit tight. Maybe something is already in the pipeline as regards Nielsen.

Ross Stewart was also out of contract but yeah, not looking good for Hollis right at this moment.

A £1 contract wouldn't be the cheap option over letting someone go. O'Brien's on this third contract at Barnsley. McCourt lasted one season.

And yet O'Brien is offered a new contract and McCourt gets shown the door.

Off the top of my head I think he left while Brown was in charge. Might be wrong though. I've never seen him play but from what I've read on the internet Josh Law is a defensive midfielder/defender!

The lack of momentum is because there are only so many people how can put in the minimium of £300 on top of season tickets and other costs. I think we've more or less reached the limit there. I doubt there will have been many people who could put this money in who have been holding off.

Would be pleased to get O'Brien back, still only 27.

Others have put a positive spin on the statement but it deeply concerns me that in one of the most successful periods in the clubs history we have posted three annual losses of considerable magnitude. Are we one or two poor seasons away from another administration? I'm not a member of the Well Society but I probably put about £500 a year into the club and I can't afford any more. In fact if every Motherwell supporter put that much money into the club our turnover would be 4 times higher than it is.

How many people would have rated a player that Morton let go? Van Zanten wasn't that bad a player, he was a youth player at Celtic and he's played roughly 200 times in the top league for St. Mirren and Hibs, but he's getting towards the end of his career and will probably be moving down rather than up.

Gary Mackay-Stevens was plucked from a pretty poor second division Airdrie team.

Coll Donaldson also went down south from Livingston during the window and as you say McNulty looks like he's going to Sheffield Utd. Accies have a few good players - Darian McKinnion and Tony Andreu for starters. Morton had an appalling season and I've not seen him play this term but I've always been impressed with Fred Bachirou when I've seen him in the past. I hear a lot of good things about Andy Geggan at Dunfermline but I've not seen him. Also heard good things about the lad McGrandles at Falkirk.

Wasn't it Botev Plovdiv supporters that were naughty boys at the Bulgarian Cup Final and set the stadium on fire? Might not be the best trip for those traveling.

Pretty much agree with this. I think the sadness is that he didn't quite live up to not just his first spell at the club but the beginning of the second spell where I thought he was superb. Unfortunately injury took its toll on him and we probably couldn't justify spending that amount of money for the end return. When McCall says "We have five different options in that position and need to utilise the budget in other areas of the squad" it's pretty clear that the signing of Anier on a longer term contract has meant McFadden was no longer affordable.

About attracting away fans I've said before you should be able to buy a 'season ticket' for away matches. Not many fans are going to be able to go to every away match but say the 'season ticket' has 5 or 10 tickets in it that can be used at any non ticket match at a slightly reduced cost. I went to one away match last season but if I could pay upfront say £75 for 5 away entries over the season I'd probably do so.

The first thing Scottish football has to do is to stop flagellating itself because it doesn't compare to the big Five. We will never get any where comparing ourself with England. There wasn't much between English and Scottish football before the television era but that time will never come back.

One one hand supporters criticise authorities for giving away Scottish football on the cheap. On the other hand supporters criticize authorities for trying to maintain a level of sponsorship income. Scottish football could have a sponsor easily, that's not the problem. It's getting a sponsor willing to pay the asking price. Better to go two or three seasons without a sponsor but keep the price up or lower it and reduce the sponsorship income in the long term?

Maybe we could get Sutton and Vigurs signed up now.

I've said before I don't expect too many changes next season. The goalkeeper situation is a tricky one. For me Hollis is a better goalkeeper than Nielsen and McCall/Marshall obviously agree since he is the no.1. But it's Hollis that is out of contract and not Nielsen. I don't think it's McCall's style to let a player go that's not really made any terrible mistakes. I think we may start next season with the two same goalkeepers unless an agreement can be made with Nielsen to move him on. Hutchinson will go. So we need a new centre half and to be fair we probably had to made a change there anyway given the number of goals we've conceded this season. No reflection on Hutchinson but making a change there might not be the worst thing for the team. I expect most of the other key players to sign on again, including Lionel Ainsworth. This is the situation regarding contracts Nielsen - 2015 Hollis - out of contract Stewart - out of contract Hutchinson - out of contract Hammell - out of contract Reid - out of contract Ramsden - 2015 Kerr - 2015 Francis Angol - 2015 Cummins - 2015 McManus - 2016 Lasley - out of contract McFadden - out of contract Ainsworth - loan return Vigurs - 2015 Lawson - 2015 Carswell - 2015 Sutton - 2015 McHugh - 2015 Moore - 2015 Anier - 2016

Yeah forgot it was only the last home game but didn't Jamie Murphy score a last minute penalty in the Rangers game?

Not only a last minute goal but also virtually the last kick of the season! The Philliben equalizer is a good call. The Fitzpatrick one is probably the best though. How there were no fatalities on the very steep Easter Road stands I don't know! Absolute bedlam.

Tom Hateley scored a last minute free kick against St. Mirren, what, 2 seasons ago now?

Last season we had 3 wins and 2 defeats. Season before that we had 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. So certainly the best post split under McCall.

Always one result out.

He's moving up the property ladder from a puffin burrow to an overturned rowing boat.